What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

In the land of the seeing, the blindfolded lady justice is Queen.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.